Path of Bravery
Enchantment
As long as your life total is greater than or equal to your starting life total, creatures you control get +1/+1.
Whenever one or more creatures you control attack, you gain life equal to the number of attacking creatures.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic 2014
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #12112
Path of Bravery turns a life-total advantage into a board-wide anthem — +1/+1 and lifelink to every attacker — which snowballs fast once you're ahead on life. The three-mana investment is trivial in any dedicated lifegain shell, and The Archimandrite decks run it at nearly 40% inclusion for good reason.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Archimandrite
The Archimandrite rewards you for keeping your life total high and going wide, so Path of Bravery pulls double duty: it fuels the lifegain triggers that The Archimandrite cares about while simultaneously turning every attack into a lifelink event that keeps the engine running.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Path of Bravery is a Commander card through and through — the lifegain condition is trivially met in 40-life games, and the anthem scales with the wide boards that token and lifegain strategies naturally produce. In competitive Constructed (Modern, Pioneer, Legacy), three mana for a conditional anthem that requires a life-total check is too slow and too fragile against disruption; aggressive white decks there want Glorious Anthem effects that don't ask questions. Oathbreaker sits closer to Commander in spirit, so Path of Bravery performs fine there in the right shell. Don't sleeve it outside Commander unless you're building something very specific.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Path of Bravery is pure bulk — pick it up without thinking twice. Bulk enchantments with narrow audiences rarely climb, so treat this as a permanent addition to your binder's lifegain section rather than a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.